Isco, Inc.

Raymond Hulinsky

Paul George Wright

Douglas T Carson

Frederick Alan Nabity

Steven D Lenz

Fredrick Alan Nabity

To draw samples from a source of liquid, a pumping system measures the amount of liquid being pumped by detecting pump cycles and calculating the pumped liquid from this measurement and stored data including conduit size, pressure head and statistical data to correlate detected pump cycles with volume of liquid pumped. Pressure pulses cause by a peristaltic pump are sensed by a piezoelectric film positioned on an inlet conduit connecting the pump to the source of water and, when the liquid reaches a predetermined point determined by the nature of pulses are counted to determine the number of pump cycles.

Pumping system

A method of making a sensor wherein flexible conduit means is assembled with a fixture having a strain-sensitive film and electrical connections are made to the film whereby variations in fluid pressure in the conduit means can be detected.

Method of making a sensor

To draw samples from a source of liquid, a pumping system measures the amount of liquid being pumped by detecting pump cycles and calculating the pumped liquid from this measurement and stored data including conduit size, pressure head and statistical data to correlate detected pump cycles with volume of liquid pumped. Pressure pulses caused by a peristaltic pump are sensed by a piezoelectric film positioned on an inlet conduit connecting the pump to the source of water and, when the liquid reaches a predetermined point determined by the nature of the pulses, the pulses are counted to determine the number of pump cycles.

To determine the depth of a body of water, ultrasonic pulses are transmitted from a point above the water at a known distance. Reflections from the water are received and the time of each of the leading edge of the reflections and the trailing edge are recorded as well as the amplitude. This information is used to sort the reflections and the most significant reflections are used to calculate the level of the water. The most significant reflections are determined by multiplying a range of between 10 and 50 times the amount of time difference between the last calculated distance to the target, a factor between 5 and 30 for the time bin that is first, a factor between 10 and 50 multiplied by the number of echoes in the bin divided by the largest number of echoes of all the bins, a value of between 20 and 100 multiplied by the number of correct level echoes in the bin divided by the largest number of correct level echoes of all of the bins and a value of between 5 and 40 multiplied by the average width of the echoes in one bin divided by the widest average of the width of all the bins.

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Raymond Hulinsky